Thursday, 26 May 2016

Reading Music - Pitches and Scales


 





A semitone is the distance from one note to the next on the keyboard.

A tone is two semitones


Accidentals: Sharps, flats, naturals. The sharp raises the note by a semitone, the flat lowers it and the natural cancels a flat or sharp. Notice how it goes before the note!




THE CIRCLE OF FIFTHS:

this helps us to identify key signatures


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